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Released
1991 · FILM

Dutch

A well-meaning stepdad volunteers to drive his girlfriend’s rebellious teen son home from prep school, only to discover the kid’s wild behavior threatens to derail their fragile new family.

“They're the best of friends... And they've got the scars to prove it.”

Directed by
Peter Faiman
Written by
John Hughes
Runtime
107 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A man decides to get to know his girlfriend's son and volunteers to pick him up from a prep school, only to discover that the boy is not particularly nice.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Adam BernardiShot by Charles MinskyScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Stan Jolley

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.6M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$4.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.9M — 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.0M — 65% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,232 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Giftzwergde
  • Tu novio huele males
  • Sacré sale gossefr

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